Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890 - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780806130309

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by Richard Slotkin (Author)

In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to justify the course of America's rise to wealth and power. Using Custer's Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the "savage" element be permitted to dominate the "civilized," Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a myth redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion.

Number of Pages: 656

Dimensions: 1.23 x 9.23 x 6.13 IN

Publication Date: April 15, 1998

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